Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Valuable Manuscripts of the Middle Ages, Mostly Illuminated: With XVI Plates
The coloured bodies of the letters ornamented with foliage work in the conventional style are painted within coloured frames of a rectangular, mostly quadratical shape, the corners of which are filled out in gold. The scenes depicted within the letters. Are painted on a dark ground (black or blue), usually enlivened by means of gold stars, rosettes of dots, ?oral ornaments a. S. 0. Gold is often used for the figures. The golden halos are mostly enchased. The 2 splendid large borders radiating from 2 corners of the frame work spread upwards and downwards, always covering 3 margins and even expanding sometimes over the fourth. They are mostly composed of foliage and ?oral work painted in brilliant colours in the conventional style and ornamented with dotsand corners of gold; merely one single border of special beauty presents a naturalistic character (1. 90v).
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